Stories from Wednesday, January 9, 2002

Ruth Collins, 88, of Green Forest, died Monday, Dec. 31, 2001, at her home. She was born March 14, 1913, in Alpena, a daughter of Stephen B. and Jennie Bell (Davis) Fultz. Mrs. Collins lived and worked on her farm south of Green Forest most of her life. She was a member of Rule United Baptist Church for many years...

Dorothy Fuller Mathews, 91, of Rockville, Md., died Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2001, in Charles Town, W.V. She was born Oct. 17, 1910, in the Historic Fuller Home on Spring Street in Eureka Springs. Mrs. Mathews was a director of the Bank of Eureka Springs and a former owner of the Basin Park Hotel. ...

Elizabeth Matney, 96, of Berryville, died Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2002, in Berryville. She was born Dec. 10, 1905, in Enloe, Texas, a daughter of John and Ida May (Robinson) Meadlin. Mrs. Matney was a charter member of the Westside Christian Church. She was a homemaker...

Milburn E. Stiles, 93, of Eureka Springs, died Monday, Dec. 31, 2001, in Springdale. He was born June 12, 1908, in Golden, Mo., a son of William and Dora (Hill) Stiles. Mr. Stiles attended the Methodist church. He was a school custodian. His first wife, Alice (Phillips) Stiles, preceded him in death. ...

The Eureka Springs Highlander basketball team has done it again, winning their second straight tournament title Saturday night, 61-54, over the Bergman Panthers in the North Arkansas College Senior Boys' Tournament. The Highlanders played seven games in 10 days at two different tournaments and won both championships, ending the grueling run with a sparkling 20-3 record...

Three Berryville Bobcat basketball teams pulled off a neat trick last Friday night ---- they got out of Lead Hill with three victories. The senior boys pushed their record to 11-5 with a 56-53 win, while the Lady Bobcats upped their season record to 15-3 with a 54-30 win...

It was a junior-high tale of two Tigers last Thursday when Green Forest traveled to Lead Hill for four games. Lead Hill took the junior boys' game, 46-33, and the junior girls' game, 40-22. Green Forest won both seventh-grade games, 28-25 for the seventh boys, and 15-6 for the seventh girls, who are now 11-0...

by David McNeal Thank goodness one of the television networks was smart enough to get Keith Jackson to broadcast the national championship game between Miami and Nebraska. I'm so sick of groups of three or four in the broadcast booth rattling on incessantly, throwing out statistics and trying to one-up each other, that when I watch a game, I turn the sound off...